You’re1 probably wondering why I am writing this stuff, given nobody is
reading it? If you’re not, I am ;-).

But there is an answer: I learn in a very ‘experimental’ way, far better than
by reading books; I like to play with things, or break them, and then fix them,
and in so doing try to learn how they work.

The problem with this approach to learning is it’s rather unstructured, and
it’s not always easy to know if you really understand what you think you do…

When I was studying for my exams at university, I discovered a trick that’s
served me well ever since: writing things down as if you were writing for
somebody else to read and understand is a great way to discover if you
know what you think you do - and it really helps to consolidate the things
you learned in your memory.

I’ve done this ever since, which is why I have a collection of piles of A5
notebooks that are basically WORN2 media. Now that I have finally stumbled
upon a CMS that I can
enjoy writing in, though, I
figure why not try doing it electronically… If nobody reads it, nothing
changed (and I have a more easily searchable record of my own notes in Git,)
and if one person does read something useful to them here - all the better.